One can navigate easily enough by the compass near the top right of the control bar, but it is a little weird because 0 is north in a system not east as it would be according to the unit circle.
I didn't even think of using the compass, and I won't, its space after all...most of the times I use the sun and nebulaes to navigate...but yes, its kinda strange, one would think spaceships have sophisticated computers and navigational equipment